2 volunteer security guards (pictured below) are being
hailed as heroes for stopping an ISIS suicide bomber
reaching worshipers at a mosque in Saudi Arabia
yesterday.
Independent UK reports;
The friends, named as Mohammed Hassan Ali
bin Isa and Abdul-Jalil al-Arbash, died after
reportedly turning the attacker away from the
Imam Hussein mosque in Dammam yesterday.
Eyewitnesses claim the man was disguised as a
woman and tried to enter through a closed
female entrance before going to the main gate,
where the pair were manning a civilian
checkpoint.
They saved a lot of lives by stopping the bomber from
getting inside the mosque,” a local man, who asked to
remain anonymous, told Middle East Eye. “They are
both heroes.”
They chased the suicide bomber when he tried to enter
the women's section of the mosque in the south
entrance,” he added.Abdul-Jalil was reportedly 25 and
had recently returned from studying at university in the
US, getting married just days ago.
One of the men’s mothers, Kowther al-Arbash, is a
high-profile writer for Saudi newspaper al-Jazira,
Middle East Eye reported.
Photos of the pair were circulating on social media
today, with people calling them heroes and “martyrs”.
Videos also emerged claiming to show the fathers of
both men praising their sons' heroism.
A video from inside the al-Anoud mosque showed the
moment the explosion was heard outside, with prayers
being interrupted by a huge blast that shook the
building, causing people to jump to their feet and
shout in the ensuing panic.
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